afterdamp

Eight men were rescued, but one died from the effects of afterdamp.

The fires spread through most of the underground workings, quickly followed by afterdamp.

Afterdamp may be a bigger killer following an explosion than the explosion itself.

Afterdamp was actually carbon monoxide gas.

Men who were not at work also turned up to help with the rescue but nothing could be done at first due to the fear of afterdamp.

Those miners not killed immediately by the fire and explosion would have died quickly from afterdamp, the noxious gases formed by combustion.

Afterdamp may also contain stinkdamp.

Indeed, the gas forced its way through a passage into the adjoining Kelloe Pit where six men lost their lives from the afterdamp.

The toxic mixtures of gases found in mines included afterdamp, blackdamp and whitedamp.

In fact, only seven of the deaths in the disaster were caused by the explosion; the rest were caused by afterdamp.

A ventilation fan was brought from a nearby mine and used to expel the afterdamp and force air into the mine shafts.

Afterdamp was the deadly gas which caused the majority of casualties in the many pit disasters of the British coalfields, and elsewhere in the world.

He identified carbon monoxide as the lethal constituent of afterdamp, the gas created by combustion, after examining many bodies of miners killed in pit explosions.

At the time of the explosion, 142 men were in the mine; 65 were killed by burns and other injuries and 45 were killed by afterdamp.

Exactly 100 of the men were killed in an instant and another 99 died from the poisonous afterdamp, making this one of the worst coal mine disasters in history.

Afterdamp is the toxic mixture of gases left in a mine following an explosion caused by firedamp, which itself can initiate a much larger explosion of coal dust.

Inside the mine, rails were twisted, roof supports were destroyed, afterdamp and coal dust filled the air, and the lamps of the surviving miners were blown out.

But as the six-man lead group went ahead attempting to fan the air to mitigate the effects of the deadly afterdamp, they soon realised the other miners had not followed them.

He kept his head down to allow the explosion to pass over him, but as soon as the explosion had occurred stood upright as much as possible to avoid the afterdamp.

However three members of Llay No. 1 rescue team, the first group to enter the mine after the explosion, were asphyxiated by afterdamp after being ordered to proceed up the mile-long return airway of the 20's district.

When the alarm was raised, the pit manager W. Horrobin, underlooker James Calland and the mine owner's son, Harry Speakman led a rescue party to investigate but were impeded by the presence of afterdamp.

As the Llay team's attempt to gain access via the 20's return airway had proved fatal and the previous escape route from 29's was also found to be full of afterdamp, rescue efforts became focused on trying to fight the fire in the main road of the Dennis section.